FRANK TALK TO FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 5

FRANK TALK TO FRANCE

PLEA FOR ENTIRELY NE .'. POLICY

10 BID EUROPE OF HATE AND FEAR. i

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPMIOHT.) : ■•■ (KBUTER'J TELBOIUM.) > PARIS, 27th January. Interviewed by the newspaper "Quoiidien," the organ of the Left bloc, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald declared that British public opinion was uneasy in regard to - the French policy. The two people at heart were most friendly. The dangerous clouds to-day wei-e duo to misunderstandings which frank, sympathetic explanation would clear up. The Reparations' Expert Committees would not be able to find a satisfactory solution within the narrow limits laid down. Tl»e ? question of France's debt to Britain cpuld not be broached without discussing the whole European situation,--and similarly in regard to the AngloFrench guarantee pact. ' The Socialists Mid not believe that the safety of the nation should depend on , armaments or alliances. The British * Government would work for the admission of Germany and Russia to the League of Nations. Germany's entry into" the League would be the best guarantee of safety for. France. An entirely new international policy ought to be inaugurated, and the prejudices and tricks of the old diplomacy abandoned. FOR FRIENDLY ENTENTE He refused to believe that they would fail to establish a friendly entente with France. Hs was relying on the good sense and peaceful intentions of French people, who would support the policy of Labour in delivering Europe from hatreds and fears. La&our would favour the accession to power of the German Democrats, who were certainly sincerely pacifist, and disposed to pay reparations. Insofar as the Separatist movement was spontaneous, it did not concern Britain, but the Labour Government would not recognise any Socialist. Government engineered by a foreign Power.